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Graduate student receives an award!
September 2018 - MD-PhD student Allison Murawski received a Graduate Merit Award from Executive Women of New Jersey!

Postdoc receives an award to present at an EMBO workshop!
June2018 - Postdoc Wendy Mok received a Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation Travel Fellowship to attend and present a talk at the EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Persistence and Antimicrobial Therapy!

Graduate student receives research award!
May 2018 - Congratulations to Wen Kang Chou who was the recipient of a research award from the Health Grand Challenges Program of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton.

Sarah Sacco receives an NSF fellowship!
April 2018 - Congratulations to Sarah Sacco for receiving an NSF graduate research fellowship. Sarah was a Class of 2016 senior thesis student with the group who is currently conducting her dissertation research with Jamey Young at Vanderbilt University!

Graduate student receives a Teaching Award!
March 2018 - Congratulations to Annabel Lemma who was selected to receive a Teaching Award from the Dean of the Graduate School for her excellent work as an AI for CBE245 in the Fall of 2017.

Graduate student is awarded an NSERC fellowship!
March 2018 - Congratulations to graduate student Darshan Sivaloganathan who was awarded an Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postgraduate scholarship-doctoral fellowship.

MPB gives an invited talk at Dartmouth!
March 2018 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Toward knowing thy enemy: investigations of bacterial persister physiology", in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH.

MPB gives an invited talk at the University of Pittsburgh!
February 2018 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Toward next-generation antibiotics: Systems-level dissection of bacterial nitric oxide stress networks", in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA.

MPB is elected to serve as the chair of AIChE Division 15c for the 2020 Annual Meeting!
November 2017 - MPB was elected to serve as the Bioengineering area (15c) chair for the AIChE Annual Meeting in 2020. For the 2018 and 2019 Annual Meetings, he will serve as vice-chair elect and vice chair, respectively!

MPB gives an invited talk at Colorado State University!
October 2017 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, “Toward next-generation antibiotics: Systems-level dissection of bacterial nitric oxide stress networks", in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO!

MPB gives an invited talk at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School!
September 2017 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, “Toward knowing thy enemy: investigations of bacterial persister physiology", for the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Cancer Program in Newark, NJ!

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funds our bacterial persistence research!
August 2017 - We were awarded a grant from the NIAID (NIH) to study bacterial persistence to fluoroquinolones.

Jonathan Robinson receives an F32 fellowship from the NIH!
August 2017 - Congratulations to Jonathan Robinson for receiving an F32 postdoctoral fellowship from the NIH. Jon was the second graduate student to earn a Ph.D. from the group, and he is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Jens Nielsen at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden!

Mehmet Orman begins as an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston!
August 2017 - Congratulations to Mehmet Orman, who was the first postoc to join the group, for beginning as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston!

MPB gives an invited talk at FEMS 2017!
July 2017 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Toward knowing thy enemy: investigations of bacterial persister physiology", at the 7th Congress of European Microbiologists in Valencia, Spain!

MPB is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
July 2017 - MPB was promoted to Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering with tenure this month. Hearty thank yous to all of the students and postdocs for their hard work that contributed to this milestone!

Graduate student receives Air Products Teaching Award!
June 2017 - Congratulations to Wen Kang Chou who was selected to receive the Air Products Assistants in Instruction (AI) Award at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering's Graduate Student Symposium in the fall of 2017. The award recognized Chou's excellent work as an AI for CBE341 in the Fall of 2016.

Postdoc presentation at EMBO/EMBL Symposium!
June 2017 - Postdoc Wendy Mok presented her research project on bacterial persistence at the 2017 EMBO|EMBL Symposium: New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology in Heidelberg, Germany.

Theresa (Henry) Barrett successfully defends her dissertation!
May 2017 - Congratulations to Theresa who successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Deepening understanding of persistence to ofloxacin in non-growing bacterial populations." Theresa is the 4th Ph.D. student to graduate from the group, and the first from the M.D.-Ph.D. program!

MPB gives an invited talk at Tufts University!
April 2017 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Looking to metabolism in order to revitalize our antibiotic medicine cabinet", at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, MA.

MPB gives an invited talk at the University of Michigan School of Medicine!
March 2017 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Looking to metabolism in order to revitalize our antibiotic medicine cabinet", at the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor, MI.

MPB and Wen Kang Chou win Teaching Awards!
February 2017 - Both MPB and Wen Kang Chou were selected as recipients of 2016 Princeton Engineering Council Excellence in Teaching Awards.

MPB gives a talk at ICBE 2017!
January 2017 - MPB gave a talk entitled, "A metabolic engineering approach to realize nitric oxide-potentiating anti-infectives ", at the ICBE conference in San Diego, CA.

Princeton SEAS funds our nitric oxide research with a seed grant!
December 2016 - We were awarded a seed grant (Forese Family Fund for Innovation) from the School of Engineering and Applied Science to explore ways to combat urinary tract infections with inhibitors of nitric oxide dioxygenase.

MPB gives an invited talk at the University of Virginia!
December 2016 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Looking to metabolism in order to revitalize our antibiotic medicine cabinet", at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.

MPB gives a talk at the AIChE Annual Meeting!
November 2016 - MPB gave a talk entitled, "Quantitative dissection of bacterial nitric oxide stress networks", at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

MPB gives an invited talk at the University of Colorado!
November 2016 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Looking to metabolism in order to revitalize our antibiotic medicine cabinet", at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.

MPB gives an invited talk at the University of Delaware!
October 2016 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Looking to metabolism in order to revitalize our antibiotic medicine cabinet", at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE.

MPB gives a talk at the 2016 European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Sciences!
September 2016 - MPB gave a talk entitled, "A metabolic engineering approach to discover next-generation antibiotics", at the ESBES meeting in Dublin, Ireland.

MPB gives an invited talk at Université libre de Bruxelles!
September 2016 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Toward knowing thy enemy: investigations of bacterial persister physiology", at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine at ULB in Brussels, Belgium.

Graduate student presentation at a Gordon Research Conference!
July 2016 - Graduate student Theresa (Henry) Barrett presented her research on bacterial persistence at the Microbial Stress Response Gordon Research Conference in South Hadley, MA.

Post-doc is awarded a prestigious Revson fellowship!
June 2016 - Congratulations to Wendy Mok, who was just awarded a Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowship in Biomedical Science! This fellowship program, which provides full support for post-docs in their third and fourth years, is intended to improve and strengthen scientific research in and around New York City.

Senior thesis student wins research prize!
June 2016 - Congratulations to Sarah Sacco, a senior thesis student in the group, who won the inaugural SABIC Senior Thesis Award, which is given to recognize an outstanding senior thesis in any area of chemical technology in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.

Mehmet Orman receives a K22 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases!
May 2016 - Congratulations to Mehmet Orman, who was the first postoc to join the group, for receiving a Career Transition Award (K22) from the NIAID of the NIH. This award provides 250k in direct costs to awardees at the onset of their independent research career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

MPB gives an invited talk at Stanford University!
April 2016 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolic engineering to potentiate immunity and discover new antivirulence targets", at the Frontiers in Quantitative Biology Seminar Series at Stanford University.

MPB gives a talk at ACS National Meeting!
March 2016 - MPB gave a talk entitled, "Discovery and deconstruction of oscillations in the nitric oxide stress network of Escherichia coli", at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funds our bacterial persistence research!
February 2016 - We were awarded a grant from the NIAID (NIH) to develop a technique to study bacterial persister gene expression at the systems-level.

Jonathan Robinson successfully defends his dissertation!
January 2016 - Congratulations to Jonathan Robinson who successfully defended his dissertation entitled, "Exploration of bacterial nitric oxide stress responses as a source of antivirulence targets." Jon is the 2nd Ph.D. student to graduate from the group!

MPB gives an invited talk at Merck Research Laboratories!
December 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolic mechanisms of antibacterial failure", at Merck Research Laboratories in Kenilworth, NJ.

MPB gives an invited talk at AIChE!
November 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "An engineering approach to discover novel antivirulence strategies", at the 2015 National Meeting of AIChE.

Graduate student presentations at AIChE!
November 2015 - Graduate students Kristin Adolfsen and Jonathan Robinson each presented their research projects at the 2015 National Meeting of AIChE.

MPB gives an invited talk at KU Leuven, Belgium!
November 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Toward knowing thy enemy: investigations of bacterial persister physiology", at the Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems at KU Leuven in Belgium.

Recent Ph.D. graduate receives Air Products Teaching Award!
October 2015 - Stephanie Amato, the 1st Ph.D. student to graduate from the group, returned to Princeton to receive the Air Products Assistants in Instruction (AI) Award at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering's Graduate Student Symposium. The award recognized Stephanie excellent work as an AI for CBE341 in the Fall of 2014.

MPB gives an invited talk at University of Maryland, College Park!
October 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolic mechanisms of antibacterial failure", at the departmental seminar of the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland.

MPB gives an invited talk at University of Texas, Austin!
August 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolic engineering to discover novel antivirulence strategies", at the departmental seminar of the Department of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin.

Post-doc presentation at Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting!
August 2015 - Post-doctoral associate Wendy Mok presented her research on bacterial persistence at the Bacteria and Phages Meeting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

MPB gives an invited talk at Biochemical and Molecular Engineering XIX!
July 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, " An engineering approach to identify antivirulence strategies", at the Biochemical and Molecular Engineering XIX conference.

Graduate student presentation at the International Conference on the Evolution and Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance!
June 2015 - Graduate student Theresa Henry presented her research on bacterial persistence at ICETAR 2015 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Graduate student delivers an Emerging Alumni Scholars Award presentation!
May 2015 - Graduate student Jonathan Robinson delivered a presentation describing his dissertation research, which was honored with an Emerging Alumni Scholars Award. The presentation can be found at http://alumni.princeton.edu/learntravel/events/gradscholars/ .

Stephanie Amato successfully defends her dissertation!
May 2015 - Congratulations to Stephanie Amato who successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Unraveling mechanisms of persister formation during normal growth." Stephanie is the 1st Ph.D. student to graduate from the group!

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funds our bacterial persistence research!
May 2015 - We were awarded a grant from the NIAID (NIH) to study the antibiotic responses of bacterial persisters.

Army Research Office funds our bacterial persistence research!
April 2015 - We were awarded a grant from the ARO to study the metabolic programs of bacterial persisters.

MPB gives an invited talk at UPENN!
April 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, " An engineering approach to identify antivirulence strategies", at the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translation Nanomedicine at UPENN.

Graduate student receives Emerging Alumni Scholars Award!
March 2015 - Graduate student Jonathan Robinson was selected as a 2014-2015 Emerging Alumni Scholar, which is an award given to students who have demonstrated both excellence in research and an impressive ability to communicate their work to broad audiences.

MPB gives an invited talk at Stevens Institute of Technology!
February 2015 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, " An engineering approach to identify antivirulence strategies", at the departmental seminar of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Stevens.

MPB receives an NSF CAREER Award!
February 2015 - MPB received an NSF CAREER Award entitled, "Metabolic Engineering to Potentiate Immunity and Discover Novel Antivirulence Therapies".

Princeton SEAS provides a second seed grant for our nitric oxide research!
December 2014 - We were awarded another seed grant (Forese Family Fund for Innovation) from the School of Engineering and Applied Science to study bacterial nitric oxide stress.

MPB gives an invited talk at MIT!
November 2014 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, " An engineering approach to identify antivirulence strategies", at the departmental seminar of the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT.

Graduate student and Post-doc presentations at AIChE!
November 2014 - Graduate students Stephanie Amato and Jonathan Robinson, and post-doctoral associate Mehmet Orman each presented their research projects at the 2014 National Meeting of AIChE.

Graduate student is awarded an NIH fellowship!
August 2014 - Congratulations to MD/PhD student Theresa Henry who has been awarded an F30 fellowship from the NIAID (NIH) to study bacterial persistence.

Graduate student is awarded Wu Prize for Excellence by Princeton SEAS!
June 2014 - Congratulations to graduate student Stephanie Amato who has been awarded a Wu Prize for Excellence by the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science. This prize recognizes graduate students who have excelled in research, teaching, and coursework during their time at Princeton.

MPB gives an invited talk at Metabolic Engineering X (ME-X)!
June 2014 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolic strategies to enhance the toxicity of nitric oxide in pathogens", at the International Metabolic Engineering Society's ME-X conference in Vancouver, Canada.

MPB gives an invited talk at the Ribosome and Antibiotics Conference!
June 2014 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Bacterial persistence: a metabolically-stimulated state", at the Ribosome and Antibiotics Conference held by the University of Tartu in Estonia.

Senior thesis student wins research prize!
June 2014 - Congratulations to Sophia Leonard, a senior thesis student in the group, who won the Merck & Company Outstanding Senior Thesis Award, given to the best thesis research in biochemical processes in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department.

Princeton SEAS funds our nitric oxide research with a seed grant!
May 2014 - We were awarded a seed grant (Forese Family Fund for Innovation) from the School of Engineering and Applied Science to study nitric oxide stress in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC).

MPB gives an invited talk at Syracuse University!
April 2014 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolism and its role in bacterial persistence", at the departmental seminar of the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University.

MPB gives an invited talk at Harvard University!
March 2014 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Engineering approaches to discover next generation antibiotics", at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University.

MPB gives an invited talk at the University of Nebraska Medical Center!
February 2014 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolism and its role in bacterial persistence", at the Basic Science Seminar Series at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Graduate student and Post-doc presentations at AIChE!
November 2013 - Graduate student Stephanie Amato and post-doctoral associate Mehmet Orman each presented their research on bacterial persistence at the 2013 National Meeting of AIChE.

MPB gives an invited talk at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)!
September 2013 - MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Antivirulence therapies from emergent systems properties", at the American Society for Microbiology's 2013 ICAAC.

Graduate student presentation at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)!
September 2013 - Graduate student Stephanie Amato presented her research on bacterial persistence at the American Society for Microbiology's 2013 ICAAC.

Graduate student presentation at the Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting!
August 2013 - Graduate student Jonathan Robinson presented his research on nitrosative stress at the 2013 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting.

Graduate student receives research award!
June 2013 - Congratulations to Stephanie Amato who was the recipient of a research award from the US Health Care and Health Policy Program of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funds our bacterial persistence research!
January 2013 - We were awarded a grant from the NIAID (NIH) to study the metabolism of bacterial persisters.

Graduate student presentations at AIChE!
November 2012 - Graduate students Jonathan Robinson and Kristin Adolfsen presented their research on nitrosative and oxidative stress at the 2012 National Meeting of AIChE.

Department of the Army funds our bacterial persistence research!
October 2012 - Through the Department of Defense, Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP) we were awarded a grant to study the mechanisms of persister formation in biofilms of E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and S. aureus.

MPB gives an invited talk at Rutgers University!
December 2011- MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Combating antibiotic failure: Engineering approaches to develop next generation antimicrobials", at the departmental seminar of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University.

High School summer intern wins poster competition!
November 2011 - Congratulations to Nicolas Ugaz who received 1st place in the ACS North Jersey Section 8th Annual Research Poster Competition. Nick is a Union City High School student who performed summer research with us through the ACS Project SEED program. Nick's summer project was on bacterial persistence.

MPB gives an invited talk at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference!
September 2011- MPB gave an invited talk entitled, "Metabolic engineering to potentiate immunity", at the Controls in Synthetic Biology symposium at the annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology conference.

Undergraduate summer intern wins poster competition!
September 2011 - Congratulations to Brittany Williams who won the poster competition at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference For Minority Students (ABRCMS). Brittany is an undergraduate student from Delaware State University who performed summer research with us through the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program. Brittany's summer project was on bacterial persistence.

Senior thesis student wins research prize!
June 2011 - Congratulations to Sara Sukenik, our first senior thesis student, who won the Sigma Xi Book Prize, which is awarded for outstanding research.

Graduate student is awarded an NSF fellowship!
April 2011 - Congratulations to graduate student Jonathan Robinson who was awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship.